I know it’s a big deal but I’ve just been skimming articles.
Being against “statism” and “globalism” and wanting “change” is what I thought they were for. I was hoping someone could give me details about what they really want, but it seems there are no details, which means they can be turned in any number of directions. Which is dangerous.
They've been protesting against Macron since November. In fact, it has spread to other parts of Western Europe.
It started out being about gasoline taxes and toll roads and for many people in rural France like Brittany and Normandy it very much is.
They want to petition the National Assembly to force it to pass new laws for referendum.
In some cities the anarchists show up and as Marine Le Pen pointed out in a media interview the other week, the government is enabling this so they can shut down the protests by discrediting them.
They are turned in a number of directions already. Not pure conservatives. All them euro types left for the states many moons ago. But they are as conservative as Europe gets in post modern times. Europe is the birthplace of Marx btw. The home of the Jacoban uprising that started all this deep state nonsense. Replace the monarchy with an oligarchy. A few hundred years later, time to get it right. Time to Make Europe Great Again.